Pictures

I've been promising pictures for a while, so today I took on the task of figuring out how the scanning mechanism works on the new monstrosity... We bought an all-in-one machine before christmas, and I've mainly been using it as a printer. So- here's the results. Mind you, these are all past creations, and not pictures of the wedding costumes. As I have an oldfashioned analogue camera I need to take all 36 pictures on the film first.

This is a picture of the first wedding dress I ever made, the lovely bride is Angela, take a note of the wedding cake. She made it herself. Impressed...

The dress consists of a longline gold brocade corset, a frilled and trained petticoat, an edwardian a-line foundation skirt with train, polonaise overskirt, and finally a 1830's bodice. The fabrics are all natural, the corset, petticoat and foundation skirt are made of cotton (this was a july wedding, and it was frightfully hot), the rest of the gown is made of a heavy weight silk shantung. The bodice consists of three layers of fabric; cotton lining, silk organza interlining and finally the silk shantung, and it closes in the back with a million (or so it felt at the time) tiny buttons. The foundation skirt is lined in cotton muslin, and the hem is stiffened with silk organza to better retain the shape, I hemmed it by hand to make sure no stitches were visible from the outside of the skirt. The overskirt was also hemmed by hand.